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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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The cover features Lincoln as a woman. Lincoln as a woman is not a thing of beauty.
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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